{"id":4962,"date":"2014-08-25T14:08:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T07:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4962"},"modified":"2014-08-25T14:08:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T07:08:37","slug":"nigerian-town-seized-by-boko-haram-part-of-islamic-caliphate-leader-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-town-seized-by-boko-haram-part-of-islamic-caliphate-leader-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian town seized by Boko Haram &#8216;part of Islamic caliphate&#8217;, leader says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boko Haram&#8217;s leader said a town in the north east of Nigeria seized by the insurgents earlier this month has been placed under an Islamic caliphate, in a video obtained by AFP on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thanks be to Allah who gave victory to our brethren in (the town of) Gwoza and made it part of the Islamic caliphate,&#8221; Abubakar Shekau said in the 52-minute video.<\/p>\n<p>The military however rejected the claim, saying in a statement the &#8220;sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Nigerian state is still intact&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Nigeria News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/africaandindianocean\/nigeria\/11054219\/Nigerian-town-seized-by-Boko-Haram-part-of-Islamic-caliphate-leader-says.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boko Haram&#8217;s leader said a town in the north east of Nigeria seized by the insurgents earlier this month has been placed under an Islamic caliphate, in a video obtained by AFP on Sunday. &#8220;Thanks be to Allah who gave victory to our brethren in (the town of) Gwoza and made it part of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[706,258,256,355,3749,3748,257,4687,393,254,4692],"class_list":["post-4962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-abubakar-shekau","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boko-haram","tag-gwoza","tag-islamic-caliphate","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}